[cvsnt] RE: Notification when cvs "touches" a local file

Tony Hoyle tmh at nodomain.org
Thu Oct 9 15:59:12 BST 2003


On Thu, 9 Oct 2003 15:12:33 +0200, "Hartmut Honisch"
<hartmut_honisch at web.de> wrote:

>
>> I could make CVSNT save the old entries in an Entries.old or something
>> like that as it rewrites them, so that TCVS doesn't have to do
>> anything special.
>
>Great! And could you write a message to stdout (like "Finished processing
>C:\mysandbox\myModule\mydirectory...") when CVSNT has finished processing a
>directory / writing the new Entries file so that TCVS can start comparing
>them right away and won't have to wait for the entire CVSNT operation to
>end?
>
I can't really change the output - some programs (Eclipse especially)
are extremely sensitive to the format of the messages.  Plus for most
people it'll just be useless information.

If you just wait for a change notification on the entries file it'll
probably work just as well.

Tony



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